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Suetonius biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Suetonius

Author Name:

Suetonius

Born As:

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Other Names:

Suetonius

Born:

75

Died:

150




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General                          
Selected works:

A surviving work of a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, entitled De Vita Caesarum.

Partly Extant:

De Viris Illustribus - On Famous Men - in the field of literature, to which belong:
De Illustribus Grammaticis - Lives Of The Grammarians; 20 brief lives, apparently complete
De Claris Rhetoribus - Lives Of The Rhetoricians; 5 brief lives out of an original 16 survive
De Poetis - Lives Of The Poets; the life of Virgil, as well as fragments from the lives of Terence, Horace and Lucan, survive
De historicis - Lives of the historians; a brief life of Pliny the Elder is attributed to this work

Peri ton par' Hellesi paidion - Greek Games
Peri blasphemion - Greek Terms of Abuse

The two last works were written in Greek. They apparently survive in part in the form of extracts in later Greek glossaries.

Lost Works:

Royal Biographies
Lives of Famous Whores
Roman Manners and Customs
The Roman Year
The Roman Festivals
Roman Dress
Offices of State
On Cicero’s Republic
Physical Defects of Mankind
Methods of Reckoning Time
An Essay on Nature
Grammatical Problems
Critical Signs Used in Bo                          
                          
                          
Belonged to the equestrian order in the early Imperial era - 
27 BC–476 AD, West; 1453 - East.